Sophisticated color with Curves

The Curves Adjustment in Photoshop is very very powerful. …And yet most photographers think it's really just focused on Tonal Adjustments. …But it can be used to great effect, to improve color within your images. …Let's take a look at how we can use curves, to apply some sophisticated color …adjustments to your photo. I'll start off of course by adding a …Curves Adjustment Layer. So, at the bottom of the Layers panel, …I'll click on the Add Adjustment Layer button, and then choose Curves from the …popup menu. That will give me the curves adjustments …on the Properties panel, and I'm going to focus on mostly adjusting color.…

But I do want to start off with a basic Tonal Adjustment, mostly expanding the …tonal range of the photo. So, I'm going to hold the Alt key on …Windows or the Option key on Macintosh while dragging the white point slider …over toward the left, and I'll drag to the left until I start to see colored …pixels appear. Those pixels indicate which areas of the …photo are loosing detail, and in fact we get an indication of which channel or …

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10/1/2012

Getting color right is both an art and a science, and in this course Tim Grey shares his knowledge of color correction in Adobe Photoshop. After exploring some of the basic concepts related to system configuration and color in general, Tim delves into basic techniques for color adjustments, then looks at focused color corrections. See how to shift the balance for a specific range of colors, tone down problem colors, create neutral highlight and shadow values, improve color in skin tones, and more. Plus, learn techniques for evaluating color and for matching specific color values in your images.